Memphis Bleek

Featuring: Donell Jones

Songwriter: Memphis Bleek

Producer: Kanye West

[Intro: Memphis Bleek talking]
Yeah, you know?
I know what you ladies want
I know what you need ya know?
Let's go
Come on

[Hook: Donell Jones]
I want to love you
(P.Y.T.!) Pretty Young Thing
You need some loving
(T.L.C.!) Tender Loving Care
And I'll take you there
Girl, ooohhhhhh
I want to love you

[Verse 1 (w/ Donell Jones in background)]
Like you need to be loved
And I, hold you like you need to be hugged
And I'm, never letting you go 'cuz TRUST
You all I need in my life I ain't letting you go 'cuz I (love you)
And I'm letting it show for now ease your mind 'cuz in time we grow
Listen, if we right for one another we live
You wife unlike them other ones I've been with 'cuz I (I want to love you)
Anyway I can, show you it's not the scene everyday I can
I be that shoulder to lean, voice that you need
And I, give you things that one can only dream of
(Love you) from the bottom of my heart
I'm true, know what you need, I seen what you been through, what?
It's no stress, go 'head pack your stuff we on the trip just to show how much I

[Hook: Donell Jones]
I want to love you
(P.Y.T.!) Pretty Young Thing
You need some loving
(T.L.C.!) Tender Loving Care
And I'll take you there
Girl, ooohhhhhh
I want to love you

[Verse 2 (w/ Donell Jones in background)]
Every minute every hour
Of any day any place that you desire
I show you how it feel just to tan in Brazil or
Smoke out while we chill in the grill 'cuz I (love you)
For the fact I'm grown, I'm 24 need something I could come home to
Something to hold on to, for the rest of my life
And I can show you what it's like to be in Trini for a night 'cuz (I want to love you)
It's been a long way here, from plan to hallway
To bring us all way here
To the suites in L.A. or beach M-i-a or chill out pool
Shout out to crib where I lay 'cuz I (love you)
And everyday that pass we gotta live it to it's limit like we living our last
And we been broke before
It's from the bottom to the top
Wit' this love I never felt before know why?

[Hook]

[Bridge: Donell Jones]
Now I got a love that'll set you free
This is where you oughta be, yeah
Lady clap your hands with me, huh
It's Donell Jones and Memphis Bleek, yeah
So tell your friends you're going out
You know what this is about
So lady come and ride with me

[Hook: 2x]

Memphis Bleek is a rapper from Brooklyn’s Marcy Projects, best known as Jay Z’s earliest protégé. His 1999 debut album Coming Of Age shares its name with the first song he’d appeared on, from Hov’s Reasonable Doubt LP. His name is a backronym for “Making Easy Money, Pimping Hoes In Style.”

On Bleek’s second album, 2000’s The Understanding, he updated Jay Z’s shelved single “Is That Your Chick,” which features Missy Elliott, Twista, and Jay himself. The song reached No. 7 on Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart, his highest appearance.

Around this time, Bleek was a pivotal figure in Jay Z and Nas' epic battle. After Nas took a shot at Bleek on his song “Nastradamus,” Memph responded on “My Mind Right,” adding fuel to what would become one of hip-hop’s greatest rivalries.

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